Here is my response. It’s also a rough draft of a post I plan to write soon. I’m putting it up as food-for-thought while you digest your turkey-for-tummy tomorrow.

Sure.

By the way, I took a bunch of other photos. I’ll post them when I have the time.

It’s also worth noting that a comment by one of your librarians that she is buying an XO laptop for her child was the direct cause of all my recent posts on the OLPC XO Laptop.

The posts would have been written eventually, but they are being written now, at a time when XO’s can still be ordered, and I hope my posts convince some people to buy them.

As I noted during our talk, the Internet/web is now the largest library ever assembled, and Google is its librarian.

I have also come to appreciate that a library is also a museum, a museum is also a library. For example, all we know of ancient Greece comes to us in the form of a library: some writings, some architectural exhibits such as the Acropolis, some pottery, and so forth.

I also believe that the XO laptop will become the key tool that will be used to start cataloging the current culture in a manner that will be both comprehensive and organize forms of knowledge in ways we can’t even yet imagine.